Lesley M. Arnold, MD

Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Women's Health Research Program
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

Lesley M. Arnold, MD, is Director of the Women’s Health Research Program and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Arnold focuses on research studies of health problems that are of particular concern to women and are at the medicine-psychiatry interface. Dr. Arnold conducts studies of chronic pain disorders including fibromyalgia, migraine, chronic low back pain, osteoarthritis pain, and neuropathy. She has over 25 years’ experience leading medication trials in chronic pain, designing clinical trial protocols, and developing patient-reported outcome measures. As part of an effort to discover new non opioid medical treatments for chronic pain and improve the assessment of pain for clinical trials, Dr. Arnold has conducted functional neuroimaging studies of chronic pain mechanisms.